GSN 50 greatest game shows special...

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' post=\'126395\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 02:47 PM\']
Brandon Brooka
[/quote]

I thought the proper misspelling of your name was "Branodn Brooks." ;-)

[Brandon Brooks]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'126404\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 04:16 PM\']
[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' post=\'126395\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 02:47 PM\']
Brandon Brooka
[/quote]

I thought the proper misspelling of your name was "Branodn Brooks." ;-)
[/quote]
That Brandon Brooka sure is a dumb-ass.

(This'll fix it, once and for all.)

[sshuffield70]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'126396\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 02:19 PM\']
Weird graphics-geekery related to TJW.

Usually on some of the other B&E shows (at least TTD and B-eye), when a champion's total winnings were displayed on-screen (or when showing how much could be won in the end game), they superimposed the winnings, keyed from an eggcrate. I always thought it was tacky and gaudy, but I also noticed that TJW simply displayed the champ's winnings on his scoreboard, and for the end game, they used a Helvetica-style font to show how much the prize package was worth (it looked like an art card instead of chyron).

I've been spending too much time at the TV station. :-P
[/quote]

Nah, it was TTD.  Though several years in, the practice was retired.  Also, it wasn't used when a champion reached $100,000.

[SteveRep]

[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' post=\'126423\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 10:40 PM\']
Nah, it was TTD.  Though several years in, the practice was retired.  Also, it wasn't used when a champion reached $100,000.
[/quote]
The TTD they showed the other night had Thom McKee's six-figure total up in green super-imposed egg-crate numbers.

[Don Howard]

I'm curious. During the opening months of Play The Percentages, many of the money amounts that were superimposed upon the screen had a very impressive look to them (the graphic shown when the couple won $36000 is what I'm talking about if that's helpful in getting the picture in your mind's eye). Then, like everything else on that show, they cheaped out and went to the eggcrate display. Any idea why they'd deliberately drop a good-looking display for that utter muck?

[Brandon Brooks]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'126445\' date=\'Aug 6 2006, 10:47 AM\']
I'm curious. During the opening months of Play The Percentages, many of the money amounts that were superimposed upon the screen had a very impressive look to them (the graphic shown when the couple won $36000 is what I'm talking about if that's helpful in getting the picture in your mind's eye). Then, like everything else on that show, they cheaped out and went to the eggcrate display. Any idea why they'd deliberately drop a good-looking display for that utter muck?
[/quote]
Completely a guess ex rectum:  Isn't it a lot easier to shoot an eggcrate than to create a colorful art card?

[NickintheATL]

[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' post=\'126450\' date=\'Aug 6 2006, 12:29 PM\']
Completely a guess ex rectum:  Isn't it a lot easier to shoot an eggcrate than to create a colorful art card?
[/quote]

The effect of the $36,000 graphic he was referring to sure would have had to have been a flashy art card.  In fact it was really a CG graphic.  They used a lot of them on PtP, at least on the one or two shows and clips that I have seen.  Oh look, there goes a % sign across the bottom of the screen again. :-P

[Joe Mello]

Yeah, lots of the money graphics were animations.  Barry-Enright sure liked their technology.

[Jay Temple]

If anyone said this, I missed the post.

Originally, in TJW's bonus round, a triple took you to $1000 regardless of the dollar value. (And it always bugged me that Jack would explain the rule by saying "natural triple," since there was only one kind of triple in the bonus round.) However, I remember watching Jack announce that they had changed the rule, and if it took you to more than $1,000, you'd get the higher amount.

About the number of jokers on the wheel: I don't know how many there were, but I recall Jack announcing that they were putting more of them on. Prior to that, I had always assumed that each wheel had exactly one joker and one of each category. (At least, that's how we played it at home!)

[booboo]

what was #28 on the list?

[sshuffield70]

[quote name=\'SteveRep\' post=\'126425\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 10:32 PM\']
[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' post=\'126423\' date=\'Aug 5 2006, 10:40 PM\']
Nah, it was TTD.  Though several years in, the practice was retired.  Also, it wasn't used when a champion reached $100,000.
[/quote]
The TTD they showed the other night had Thom McKee's six-figure total up in green super-imposed egg-crate numbers.
[/quote]

Misread it.  I thought you meant the podium itself.

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'booboo\' post=\'126483\' date=\'Aug 6 2006, 04:55 PM\']
what was #28 on the list?
[/quote]
That's the $64,000 question.

/There's a (bad) joke in there somewhere, friends. . .

Doug

[Mike Tennant]

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'126499\' date=\'Aug 6 2006, 09:47 PM\']
That's the $64,000 question.
[/quote]
You mean the "Hal March question."

[gsnstooge]

On the TJW episode, I think Debbie Flynt (sp?) was also on Bullseye and won at least $5200.

[Jeremy Nelson]

Sure, we know GSN turned this list into "The 50 Most Profitable Games On Our Network (with some Reg Grundy sprinkled here and there)", but since we're through the bottom half of the list now, is ANYBODY on this board convinced that there's no more crap on the list?